Caucasus and Mercury

Caucasus and Mercury
Company typePartnership
IndustryTransportation
PredecessorMercury (1849)
Caucasus (1858)
Founded21 May [O.S. 2 June] 1858 (21 May [O.S. 2 June] 1858)
Defunct1918 (1918)
FateNationalization by Soviet Union
Headquarters,
Key people
Mikhail Botkin
ServicesShipping

Caucasus and Mercury (or CMSC;[1] Russian: Кавказъ и Меркурій, also known as К. и М.) was one of the three largest Russian pre-revolutionary shipping companies on the Volga.

  1. ^ De Cordier, Bruno (2019). "Central Asia's Maritime Dimension? The Historical Position and Role of the Aral-Caspian Basin in the Modern Shaping of the Region". Region. 8 (2): 149–172. ISSN 2166-4307. JSTOR 26899263.